by Zork Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:16 pm
I think they're really developing on impulse rather than thinking things through, good examples of this is Sonic Riders and Shadow the Hedgehog. Sonic Riders could've been pretty cool but apparently it wasn't. Shadow was just a huge departure and didn't turn out well at all. I think they've lost sight of whats really important, the simplicity of it all. You don't really see Mario trying to be all mature or whatever, and he does have his large share of gimicky games, good and bad, but the difference is, they aren't all bad.
I think they need to stop trying so hard to innovate go back to the basics and re-build from there. The last good Sonic game I played was Sonic Rush. Although I have heard the new Sonic game for 360 and PS3 was pretty good.